Bill-file.



PATENTED AUG. 15, 1905 J1 KOENIG.

BILL FILE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 14, 1903.

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JOSEPH KOENIG, OF TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO ALUMINUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Ill-atented Aug. 15, 1905.

Application filed December 14, 1903. Serial No. 185,039.

' hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide simple economical bill-files; and it consists in what is hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure l of the drawings represents a partlysectional front elevation of a bill-file in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a partlysectional view of the same central and longitudinally. thereof; Fig. 3, afront elevation of the device, partly in section, and having the plate and hook portions of the same parallel one against the other; Fig. 4:, a central longitudinal sectional View of what is shown in the third figure, and Fig. 5 a horizontal section indicated by line 5 5 in said third figure.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates a stiff-metal plate, preferably aluminium, havinglower central vertical guides Z) 0 pressed out from its front and back. The plate is provided with an upper central opening (Z for the engagement of a hanger, and another central opening 6 is provided in said plate adjacent to the upper end of the front guide 6, as is herein shown.

The shank of a suitably bent and pointed hook B, of wire, is adjustable in the guides Z) c, with which the plate aforesaid is provided, and said shank is flattened to form a stop-head f above the upper one of said guides. The

hook being full down, the stop-head end of its shank is parallel to the plate A and said hook held in position at a right angle to said plate for the reception of bills or other papers, said stop-head being in whole or part below the opening a in said plate. If the hook be pushed up a short distance, the stop-heady of its shank will have clearance in the opening 0 in the stiff-metal plate A, and said hook can be turned parallel to said plate to rest snug against the same.

A recess may be substituted for the opening 0 in the plate A.

Advertising matter may be displayed on the plate, and the hook being pivotally adjustable to rest snug against said plate the device as a whole can be put into an ordinary envelop for mailing.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A bill-tile consisting of a stiff-metal plate having lower central front and rear guides pressed out therefrom and provided with an opening or recess adjacent to the upper end of the upper guide, and a hook the shank of which engages the guides aforesaid and is fashioned above the upper one of same to form a stop-head engageable with said opening or recess in the plate when said hook is turned parallel to the plate.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Two Rivers, in the county of Manitowoc and State of Visconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH KOEN 1G.

Witnesses:

YV. J. WVRIn'rn, (.ir. A. Mnunn. 

